Former Watertown city councilman Michael Christians took out a petition in January to run for the District 3 seat on the Codington County Commission. He…
Month: March 2018
I’m not nearly as invested in beating the tiny flat piñata of Lora Hubbel’s campaign for Governor. But while Pat Powers hyperventilates over Lora’s keepsake…
Donald Trump could send armed Secret Service agents to patrol polling places during the 2018 general election. So says Section 4012 of House Resolution 2825,…
On Wednesday on the Senate floor, Senator Stace Nelson spoke passionately against Senate Bill 125, the measure that, as Nelson accurately put it yesterday on…
One-party corruption is so bad in South Dakota that even honest Republicans can’t investigate it. Reps. Dan Kaiser and Elizabeth May tried to get the…
The only discussion of Medicaid expansion in the Legislature this year was a failed attempt by Trumpy Republican legislators, scared of both Barack Obama and…
Heading into the final day of the 2018 Session, the Legislature had dealt with 534 bills. They suspended the rules yesterday to add one more…
The Legislature voted Thursday to raise taxes to fund K-12 education. But our wily legislators are shifting the blame for any higher taxes to local…
The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee approved yesterday a full 40-day calendar for the 2019 Session: This calendar has some logic to it: Nine weeks have…
Terri Petter is still making money on captive wolves. KIKN Radio finds Petter at the Sportsmen’s Show in Sioux Falls this weekend showing a dwarf raccoon…